linux-kernel - Re: Badness on the Warp

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Date:	Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:42:50 -0400
From:	Sean MacLennan <smaclennan@...atech.com>
To:	Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>
Cc:	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Badness on the Warp

I found the source of the badness. The backtrace is correct:

uic_init_one
___alloc_bootmem
___alloc_bootmem_nopanic
alloc_arch_preferred_bootmem

In alloc_arch_preferred_bootmem we have:

	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(slab_is_available()))
		return kzalloc(size, GFP_NOWAIT);

Since the slab is available (it had better be or the call will return
NULL), we get the badness message, then a successful return from
kzalloc.

I believe the author wants something like:

	if (slab_is_available())
		return kzalloc(size, GFP_NOWAIT);
	else
		WARN_ON_ONCE(1);

Cheers,
   Sean
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